From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTWar seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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